Acceptance is a viable part if repentance. People need to take the racism they see seriously and not shrug it off. Acts of racism are real and serious. Now killing racism will never fully happen but pursuits need to be made by people who care. People make a difference with action, but thought without action is meaningless.
There is a general acknowledgment that without a racial identity you my struggle to have an identity at all. This is due to how people use racial categories to provide an idea to what another person is like. Such assumptions on personalities is tied into preconceived notions that different race’s act differently. This is a great stereotyping which helps reveal what race is in society. It shows how it could be used to fuel racism, it also shows how people use it as a way to gauge other people.
The definition of race has always been somewhat of a question mark in the science of anthropology, sparking debates in terms of the ‘correct’ approach one should take in classifying race. Classification in an anthropological sense is concerned with the way different people see the world (Hendry, 2008: 20), thus a generic definition of race would never suit everyone, as different people have different theories on identifying race, and will more than likely continue to do so. Some base race purely on physical appearance such as skin and hair colour, whereas others practice a more scientific approach. Others, when asked “what is race?” struggle to give an answer, as it is a question many have never pondered on before. A satisfactory understanding
After centuries of giving value to the color of a person’s skin, attempting to push race aside now also pushes aside the struggles that many people have gone through because of the value placed on their skin. The need for colorblindness also implies there is something shameful about the way God made us and the culture we were born into, that we are to timid to speak about. Colorblindness has helped make race a taboo topic that people no longer want to discuss. And if you can’t talk about it, you can’t understand it, much less fix the racial problems that plague our society. We should explore our society and what we mean by race because if we do not know what we mean by race we cannot tackle institutional racism.
Race is often described as ethnic groups often leading to discrepancies between scientific views on race and popular usage of the term. The problem with race is that it does not have a concrete definition it will change from one person’s view to another, because of this reason we can define race as a social construct. Race clearly affects one’s life chances. There are the chances of getting
Race is a social construct that has to be talked about you can’t say race doesn’t matter because that would be attempting to push race aside. This would also mean pushing aside the struggles that many people of colored had gone through because of their skin color. “Race is an exceedingly slippery concept. Although it appears in social life as ubiquitous, omnipresent and real, it is hard to pin down the concept in any objective sense, this is because the idea of race is riddled with apparent contradictions. While it is a dynamic phenomena rooted in political struggle, it is commonly observed as a fixed characteristic of human populations; while it does not exist in terms of human biology, people routinely look to the human body for evidence
Racism devalues specific members of the community. It promotes the idea that some people are better or more entitled to our nation's liberties by simple virtue of having a "preferred" ethnicity or race. If it is accepted that one race is superior, it must then be accepted that another race is inferior. As a result of these ideas, people are subjected to ridicule, harassment, racial propagation, vilification and even physical abuse. These attitudes are exclusive and exploitive.
Gill's strongest points is that, “the politically correct 'race denial' perspective in society as a whole suppresses dialogue,” and similarily is, “allowing ignorance to replace knowledge and suspicion to replace familiarity.” my class example *the importance of bones- *race only being skin deep *needs a more open dialogue- (most people who publish have political/cultural beliefs that swade our opinions *race leads to racism- yet, but not after more education and more of an open dialogue. In a world based largely around media- and their portral- the education and open dialogue is stinted- and unfortunately the issue is compouned by political strife most of the time. Perception is skewed due to our current world climate. I agree with oponent's side of him that racial categories for human kind are “arbitrary and meaningless”
People would have a better understanding of success and how to accomplish such goals if they put down the finger and looked at themselves for their own mistakes. The road to success is not an easy journey; you will come across many bumps in the road. Do not take those bumps as a sign to give up! You may have been placed in a lower class in society, but that does not mean you can’t overcome your class
Classifying race as biology is very wrong yet is so common for those who have lived before us. When reading Race: The Power of an Illusion, I immediately began to think about those races who have been discriminated against and put under horrible circumstances and placed in frightening situation. All of those who have lived before us have experienced some sort of racism. If they were not those who were being discriminated against, there is some point in their life where they took place in discriminating against someone because of their race. Although this is harsh, it is true and is something that still goes on in today’s society.